“…A number of adsorbent materials have been studied for their ability to remove heavy metals and they have been sourced from natural materials and biological wastes of industrial processes (Igbinosa and Okoh, 2009). These materials including: activated carbon (Uzun and Guzel, 2000;Goel et al, 2005;Issabayeva et al, 2007;Mondal et al, 2008), chitosan and carrageenan (Bong et al, 2004), lignite (Allen et al, 1997), kaolinite and ballclay (Chantawong et al, 2003), diatomite (Ulmanu et al, 2003), coconut fiber (Igwe et al 2007) and limestone (Aziz et al, 2004). However, adsorption by activated carbon had been reported as a technically and economically viable technology for heavy metal removal (Huang and Morehart, 1991;Bong et al, 2004).…”